Improvement in cultivators



A. M. KEITH.

Steam-Plow.

No. 25,419. Patented Sept. 13, 1859.

Eirn rss Perrier ASA M. KEITH, OF KOSOIUSKO, MISSISSIPPI.

iViPQOVElVi ENT EN CULTEVATQRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 2355,41), dated September 13, 1859.

' that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a partof this specification, in which- Figure 1ishlongitudinalside view; Fig. 2, a transverse view.

LetterArepresents, in Fig.1, thesidestocks,

there being two of them three feet fourinches in length and eighteen inches between them; letter B in Fig. 1, the wheels before, on which the cultivator runs; letter 0, a side view of a double scraper; letter D, a side view ot'hoedrum; letter E, large right-hand wheel; F, a

small wheel fixed on inside of large right-hand wheel E, over which passes a band, (marked in N0. 1 G,) and over it pulley connected with hoedrum, which pulley is in Fig. 1 letter H.

The letter I in No.1 represents two hoes fastened to hoe-drum.

Letter J represents the bars upon which the wheels of cultivator are suspended, which are fastened to stocks A. 7 Letter K represents the beam by which the cultivator is drawn, which is fasten ed by screw and tap to the cross bars connecting side stocks.

In No. 2, letterL represents the side stocks, as represented by letter A in No. 1; letter M, the bars connecting side stocks.

Letter N represents a full view of the double scraper alluded to in No. 1 by letter C, which double scraper is suspended iroinand fastened to front cross-bur by screw and tap.

Letter 0 represents the hoe-drum alluded to in No. 1 by letter 1);'letter I, the hoes.

Letter It represents two hillers, suspended to back cross-bar by screw and tep,,one on each side of drawing-beam represented in No.

1 by letter it. build hillers are so constructed as that one of them throws the dirt to the right and the other to the left.

Letters S represent the two fore wheels and the left-hand hind wheel upon which cultivator runs.

'1 represents the ,large right-hand wheel marked E in-No. 1; letter U, the small wheel inside of large one E, over which passes band to pulley, causing hoe-drum to revolve.

The cultivator is intended to barofl" and scrape both sides of u row, chop out twelve inches and leave four, and to bill and dirt cotton, and to bar ofi', scrape, and hill or dirt corn all at the same time and by the same novement, thereby doing with one person and one or two horses the work of eleven persons and four horses,

the way cotton and corn are now cultivated.

Toenable others to make and use myinvention, I will say that the whole is constructed out of iron and steel, the stocks, beam, and wheels being ofcnstiron, the scraper and hiller of wroughtirou, the hoes of cast-steel. Thewhole cultivator is put together by screws and taps, so that the scraper, hoes, and hillers can be raised and lowered at pleasure. The culti- -vatoris drawn bysingletrec attached to beam,

and is so constructed, by reason oi large righthaud wheel, that it can he guided and managed by any person cnpable of using common plow. The band passing over small wheel and pulley to revolve hoe-drum can be made of either indiarubber or leather.

What I claim by my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The arrangement of the double scraper, the hoe-drum, and the hillers or coverers in their relation to each other and to the ports of the frame to which they are attached, as and for the purposes herein set forth.

h'u ASA. M. KEITH. mark. Witnesses:

SAM. YOUNG, M. A. CLARK. 

